To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]
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Imprecate
//ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt//
Synonyms for "imprecate" (36 found)
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18 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- пожелавам зло verb (to invoke evil upon)
- проклинам verb (to call down by prayer)
Finnish
4 entries- kirota verb (to call down by prayer)
- kirota verb (to invoke evil upon)
- manata verb (to call down by prayer)
- manata verb (to invoke evil upon)
Latin
2 entries- exsecror verb (to invoke evil upon)
- imprecor verb (to invoke evil upon)
Occitan
2 entries- escomenjar verb (to invoke evil upon)
- imprecar verb (to invoke evil upon)
Polish
4 entries- przeklinać verb (to invoke evil upon)
- przekląć verb (to call down by prayer)
- przekląć verb (to invoke evil upon)
- złorzeczyć verb (to call down by prayer)
Russian
2 entries- проклина́ть verb (to call down by prayer)
- проклина́ть verb (to invoke evil upon)
Spanish
2 entries- imprecar verb (to call down by prayer)
- imprecar verb (to invoke evil upon)
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